Earth Systems Miscellaneous
The number of interacting systems that make up our Earth.
What is 4?
The meaning of the latin root "geo"
What is rock/ Earth
The meaning of the latin root "atmo"
What is air
True or False: Earth's systems are important.
What is true?
Which biome is known as the frozen forest?
What is a Taiga?
Water is found on Earth in what three states?
What are Solid, Liquid, or Gas
The main gas found in Earth's atmosphere.
What is O2 or Oxygen?
True or False: Earth's systems rely on one another.
What is true?
Which is not part of the biosphere?
plants, humans, bacteria, water
What is water?
Scientists refer the material that plants grown in as _____________.
What is soil?
The process by which water moves through the Earth and Atmosphere
What is the Water Cycle?
This planet has an atmosphere made of sulfuric acid.
What is Venus?
All of Earth's systems ___________, or work together.
What is interact?
How does energy flow through an ecosystem? Think energy-matter cycle.
What is the life cycle
The process by which rocks change into other types of rocks (metamorphic to igneous to sedimentary, etc)
What is the rock cycle
The process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas by heat (ex: The sun heats up water from the ocean)
What is evaporation?
Which gas decreases the higher you do up in the air?
What is oxygen?
A group of parts/ things that interact and work together to perform a job or function.
What is a system?
How do nutrients get in the soil?
What is decomposers recycling materials and releasing nutrients in soil.
Earth is made up of layers, what are those layers?
What are the Crust (lithosphere), Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core
The term for stored water underground?
What is a aquifer?
The main gases that make up our atmosphere:
What are Nitrogen (78%), Oxygen (21%), Carbon Dioxide, and Water Vapor